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Drug Profile

Telavancin: a new lipoglycopeptide with multiple mechanisms of action

Pages 743-749 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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Website

  • Theravance announces positive results in Phase III telavancin complicated skin and skin structure infection program. Theravance, Inc. press release August 22, 2006. www.ir.theravance.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=208110.

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